[gentoo-user] Re: Another angle on hal/xorg thread

[Harry Putnam]

Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> writes:

> Strange. Is hal still in your USE flags?
> It is not really neded, but I think it's nice to have - maybe not for
> x.org, but for other things like automounting devices. Here's the list of
> my packages that need HAL:

I didn't tell quite all of it.  Hal was not in my useflags (by my
hand) until this last upgrade (two days ago).

In the course of events I saw hal pop up in the output of 
emerge -vuDp world.  I'd already noticed hal was not on my system for
a while now... so quickly added `-hal' to /etc/make.conf.

So from here on, its no mystery why I don't have hal.  But before the
last upgrade, I don't recall having done anything explicit about hal
to remove it.  And had gone through several upgrades without hal
popping up.